 Introduzione
History
The Academy was founded in 1621, and its first chairman was the painter Giovan Battista Crespi known as Cerano. This new institution flourished at the beginning, attracting such illustrious architects, painters and sculptors, as Biffi, Mangone, Morazzone, Daniele Crespi and Nebbia. Later, the art academy faltered, finally closing in 1776.
What did remain, however, and continued to develop, was the Quadreria (Picture Gallery) At that time, the Quadreria already included works by Raphael Leonardo, Luini, Titian, Caravaggio, and Brueghel which formed the nucleus of the present-day collection. At the time of the donation in 1618, there were 250 paintings, including originals and about 30 copies. Now there are more than 1500 works on panel, canvas and copper.
In the course of the 19th century the Gallery underwent a series of reconstructions due mainly to the extension of the building and the damage caused by Allied bombing in 1943. Work carried out in 1905-6, under the auspices of Luca Beltrami, Antonio Grandi and Luigi Cavenaghi is to be noted as well as the reorganization carried out in 1963 by the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni ending with the reconstruction undertaken between 1990 and 1997.
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Transit: Underground: Subway Line 1 (red) or Line 3 (yellow) and get off at Duomo station or Line 1 (red) and get off at Cordusio station.
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Ambrosian Library
When its first reading room, the Sala Fredericiana, opened to the public, December 8, 1609, it was only the second public library in Europe, after the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Prized manuscripts, including the Leonardo codices, were requisitioned by the French during the Napoleonic occupation, and only partly returned after 1815. Cardinal Borromeo gave his collection of paintings and drawings to the library too. Shortly after the cardinal's death his library acquired twelve manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, including the Codex Atlanticus. Among the manuscripts is the Muratorian fragment, of ca 170 A.D., the earliest example of a Biblical canon.
The Library has a college of Doctors, similar to the scriptors of the Vatican Library. Among prominent figures have been Giuseppe Ripamonti, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, Cardinal Angelo Mai and, at the beginning of the 20th century, Antonio Maria Ceriani, Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, and Giovanni Mercati.
Useful information
Fax: 39 02 80 692 210
Email: info@ambrosiana.it
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m
Closed: January 1, Easter day, May 1, December 25th.
Disabled: The Reading Room of the Library and the most important rooms of the Gallery are accessible to the disabled.
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